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Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society is a journal of religion and theology. It was founded in 1958 and is published quarterly by the Evangelical Theological Society.Subjects include religion. The editor is Andreas J. Kostenberger.
Articles from Vol. 49, No. 3, September
1-2 Corinthians
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1-2 Corinthians. By Craig S. Keener. New Cambridge Bible Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, xii + 299 pp., $21.95 paper.With this volume, Craig Keener provides one of the first glimpses at this new series, which desires to revitalize...
After Patriarchy, What? Why Egalitarians Are Winning the Gender Debate
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I. INTRODUCTIONNew York Times columnist Maureen Dowd points out that the phrase "I want to spend more time with my family," coming from a man leaving a government position or a political campaign, can usually be translated: "The 21-year-old has given...
A History of Apologetics
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A History of Apologetics. 2d edition. By Avery Cardinal Dulles. San Francisco: Ignatius, 2005, 417 pp., $18.95.The first edition of this book came out while I was midway through my doctoral program at Southwestern Seminary. I read it then, but I remember...
Apostle Paul: His Life and Theology
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Apostle Paul: His Life and Theology. By Udo Schnelle. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005, 695 pp., $49.99.The author is Professor of New Testament at the University of Halle. Although better known as a scholar of the Gospel and Letters of John, he has published...
Christianity Reborn: The Global Expansion of Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century
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Christianity Reborn: The Global Expansion of Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Donald M. Lewis. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004, x + 324 pp., $40.00 paper.Donald M. Lewis, this volume's editor, comments in his introduction, "Three religious...
Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel
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Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel. By William G. Dever. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006, xvi + 344 pp., $25.00.This book, which completes Dever's trilogy on Israelite history, society, and religion, seeks to reconstruct...
Does Mark's Gospel Have an Outline?
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(ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.)Mark's Gospel is like a path on which readers can travel, walking with Jesus and experiencing his life, death, and resurrection. As with any journey, this one has a starting point,...
Effective First-Person Biblical Preaching
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Effective First-Person Biblical Preaching. By J. Kent Edwards. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005, 190 pp., $24.99.How do we preach well and accurately on the numerous narrative passages in the Scriptures? Do we simply attempt to mimic what we do in the epistles...
Encounters with Biblical Theology
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Encounters with Biblical Theology. By John J. Colline. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005, ix + 243 pp., $22.00.John J. Collins has been thinking and writing about biblical theology for some time. The essays collected in this volume come from an almost 30-year...
Exodus through the Centuries
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Exodus Through the Centuries. By Scott M. Langston. Blackwell Bible Commentaries. Maiden: Blackwell, 2006, xiv + 294 pp., $44.95 paper.This work is one of the first to appear in the new Blackwell Bible Commentaries series. The volume on Revelation appeared...
God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology
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God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology. By Michael Horton. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006, 204 pp., $19.95.Representative Reformed spokespersons have described Michael Horton's book, God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology, as a "masterful survey...
Holy People, Holy Land: A Theological Introduction to the Bible
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Holy People, Holy Land: A Theological Introduction to the Bible. By Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2005, 266 pp., $15.99 paper.Holy People, Holy Land is a look at the unfolding achievement of God's work and of God's people...
Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah
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Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah. By Daniel J. Simundson. Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries. Nashville: Abingdon, 2005, ix + 350 pp., $ 32.00 paper.Theological erudition in a postmodern age encounters inflationary deficits of monumental proportions....
How to Read Genesis
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How to Read Genesis. By Tremper Longman III. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2005, 192 pp., $15.00 paper.In How to Read Genesis Longman seeks to give a brief yet comprehensive primer for interpreting the book of Genesis. Rather than multiplying dogmatic...
Jesus in Context: Background Readings for Gospel Study
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Jesus in Context: Background Readings for Gospel Study. Edited by Darrell L. Bock and Gregory J. Herrick. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005, 286 pp., $22.99 paper.One of the editors of this book should be well known to the readers of this Journal, not only for...
John Marco Allegro: The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls
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John Marco Allegro: The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls. By Judith Anne Brown. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005, xvi + 288 pp., $25.00.This book, a biography of John Marco Allegro written by his daughter, is the eighth volume in the Studies in the Dead...
Lorenzo Snow's Couplet: "As Man Now Is, God Once Was; as God Now Is, Man May Be": "No Functioning Place in Present-Day Mormon Doctrine?" a Response to Richard Mouw
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Man may become as God himself! Let those who disagree howl as they may!Robert L. Millet and Joseph Fielding McConkielI. RICHARD MOUW S TABERNACLE APOLOGYDuring his appearance with Ravi Zacharias in the Mormon Tabernacle on November 14, 2004, Fuller Seminary...
Lukan Theology in the Light of the Gospel's Literary Structure
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Lukan Theology in the Light of the Gospel's Literary Structure. By Douglas S. McComiskey. Paternoster Biblical Monographs. Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004, xvii + 388 pp., $39.99 paper.With this revision of his 1997 doctoral dissertation (University of Aberdeen),...
Nature in the New Creation: New Testament Eschatology and the Environment
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(ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.)I. INTRODUCTIONIn 1843, Ludwig Feuerbach claimed that, "Nature, the world, has no value, no interest for Christians. The Christian thinks only of himself and the salvation of his...
Paul: Pioneer for Israel's Messiah
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Paul: Pioneer for Israel's Messiah. By Jakob Van Bruggen. Translated by Ed M. van der Maas. Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing, 2005, xix + 411 pp., $19.99 paper.Dutch scholar Jakob Van Bruggen synthesizes in this work the fruit of his life-long...
Paul's Arguments from Creation in 1 Corinthians 11:8-9 and 1 Timothy 2:13-14: An Apparent Inconsistency Answered
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(ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.)For many Bible students, pastors, and scholars the main reason for not allowing women to hold the office of pastor (i.e. elder or overseer)1 is primarily based on Paul's arguments...
Reading Luke: Interpretation, Reflection, Formation
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Reading Luke: Interpretation, Reflection, Formation. Edited by Craig G. Bartholomew, Joel B. Green, and Anthony C. Thiselton. Scripture and Hermeneutics Series 6. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005, xxi + 484 pp., $39.99.This collection of essays is volume...
Rethinking the Pentateuch: Prolegomena to the Theology of Ancient Israel
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Rethinking the Pentateuch: Prolegomena to the Theology of Ancient Israel. By Antony F. Campbell and Mark O'Brien. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2005, xv + 183 pp., $29.99.As the title's allusion to Wellhausen's landmark monograph indicates, Rethinking...
Romans in Full Circle: A History of Interpretation
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Romans in Full Circle: A History of Interpretation. By Mark Reasoner. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2005, xxvii + 194 pp., $24.95 paper. Reading Romans through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Karl Barth. Edited by Jeffrey P. Greenman and...
Song of Songs
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Song of Songs. By Robert W. Jenson. Interpretation. Louisville: John Knox, 2005, x + 106 pp., $24.95.It comes as no surprise that Robert W. Jenson, a well-known theologian, would offer a "spiritual" reading of the Song of Songs. (He adopts the term "allegory"...
Story-Sensitive Exegesis and Old Testament Allusions in Mark
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(ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.)OT allusions play a major role in contemporary Gospel exegesis, presenting interpreters with the twin challenges of first identifying allusions, then determining their functions....
Studies in Early Christianity
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Studies in Early Christianity. By François Bovon. Translated by Laura Beth Bugg, et al. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003, v + 336 pp., $22.00 paper.Studies in Early Christianity contains assorted essays by French scholar François Bovon, all of which have been...
The Covenant of God and the Children of Believers: Sovereign Grace in the Covenant
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The Covenant of God and the Children of Believers: Sovereign Grace in the Covenant. By David J. Engelsma. Grandville, MI: Reformed Free, 2005, x + 239 pp., $23.95."The place of children in the covenant is still controversial in Reformed churches. There...
The End of Wisdom: A Reappraisal of the Historical and Canonical Function of Ecclesiastes
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The End of Wisdom: A Reappraisal of the Historical and Canonical Function of Ecclesiastes. By Martin A. Shields. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2006, 250 pp., $37.50.The book of Ecclesiastes (hereafter referred to as Qoheleth) has often provided its readers...
The God Who Believes: Faith, Doubt, and the Vicarious Humanity of Christ
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The God Who Believes: Faith, Doubt, and the Vicarious Humanity of Christ. By Christian D. Kettler. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2005, xiv + 194 pp., $24.00 paper.The God Who Believes is a theology of x worked out in light of y, where x is a specific doctrine...
The Gospel of Matthew
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(ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.)The Gospel of Matthew. By John Nolland. NIGTC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005, xcviii + 1481 pp., $80.00.John Nolland, Academic Dean and Lecturer in New Testament Studies at Trinity...
The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture
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The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture. By N. T. Wright. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005, 160 pp., $19.95.I appreciate Bishop N. T. Wright's willingness to address the church through writing popular...
The Mission of the Church in Paul's Letter to the Philippians in the Context of Ancient Judaism
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(ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.)The Mission of the Church in Paul's Letter to the Philippians in the Context of Ancient Judaism. By James Ware. NovTSup 120. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xv + 380 pp. $179.00.In this fine...
Theology of the New Testament: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach
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Theology of the New Testament: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach. By Frank Thielman. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005, 798 pp, $34.99.Frank Thielman, Presbyterian Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, is well known to many readers of this Journal,...
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God
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The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: seeking the Face of God. By Robert Louis Wilken. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, 368 pp., $19.00.Robert Louis Wilken, William R. Kenan Professor of the History of Christianity at the University...
Tradition Kept: The Literature of the Samaritans
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Tradition Kept: The Literature of the Samaritans. By Robert T. Anderson and Terry Giles. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2005, xvi + 432 pp., $34.85.Tradition Kept is the sequel to The Keepers: An Introduction to the History and Culture of the Samaritans by Robert...
What Are They Saying about the Letter to the Hebrews?
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(ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.)What Are They Saying about the Letter to the Hebrews? By Daniel J. Harrington. New York: Paulist, 2005, v + 96 pp., $12.95 paper.What commentaries are the most helpful in the study...
What Have They Done to the Bible? A History of Modern Biblical Interpretation
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What Have They Done to the Bible? A History of Modern Biblical Interpretation. By John Sandys-Wunsch. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2005, xvii + 378 pp., $39.95.Well researched but straightforward and laced with humor, this book is fun to read. It is...
Where Is the God of Justice?
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Where Is The God of Justice? By Warren McWilliams. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005, 189 pp., $16.95.Warren McWilliams is the Auguie Henry Professor of Bible at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK. Since 1976, he has taught Bible, theology, and ethics...
Your Old Testament Toolbox: Study Helps for the Hebrew Scriptures
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Your Old Testament Toolbox: Study Helps for the Hebrew Scriptures. By Thomas Vernon Taylor. Port Colborne, ON: Gospel Folio, 2005, v + 280 pp., $15.95 paper.Those unacquainted with the Howard G. Hendricks of the east coast are in store for a real treat...
